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PARISH RECORD: NORTH BOUNDARY YEW BELT March 1999

File: PC/ARCH/92/022 · Survey_Sheet_1992.htm

This file concerns the parish survey undertaken in 1992, following reports of a footpath visible beyond the North Boundary Yew Belt.

The original survey sheet was found damaged before copying. Its lower section had been torn away in a clean, curved line. What remained appeared to show a narrow path passing through the yews and continuing beyond the parish boundary, where no right of way has ever been recorded. The surveyor noted that the path was "freshly walked, but only in one direction."

During drainage work in 1967, labourers uncovered an oilcloth map beneath the roots of a mature yew in the same belt of woodland. The map did not show roads, fields, neighbouring parishes, or any feature beyond the village boundary. It showed The Village only: the church, the green, the pond, the old school, and every lane returning eventually to the same place.

There was one exception.

At the northern edge of the map, a single black line passed into the trees. Beside it, in faded red ink, was written:

EXIT